Triple

T17429716
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jerry Cohan E423834 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Nellie Cohan
Nellie Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the mother of famed entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan.
E1274658 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Nellie Cohan | Statement: [Jerry Cohan, relative, Nellie Cohan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Cohan
Context triple: [Jerry Cohan, relative, Nellie Cohan]
  • A. Ruth Etting
    Ruth Etting was a popular American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, famed for hits like "Love Me or Leave Me" and known as one of the era's leading torch singers.
  • B. Josephine Cohan
    Josephine Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and actress, best known as the sister of famed entertainer George M. Cohan and a member of the Cohan family theatrical troupe.
  • C. Helen Cohan
    Helen Cohan was an American actress and dancer, best known as the daughter of legendary entertainer George M. Cohan and for her appearances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
  • D. Mabel Mercer
    Mabel Mercer was a renowned British-born cabaret singer celebrated for her subtle, conversational style and influential interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
  • E. Sophie Tucker
    Sophie Tucker was a popular early 20th-century American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star known as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Nellie Cohan
Triple: [Jerry Cohan, relative, Nellie Cohan]
Generated description
Nellie Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the mother of famed entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nellie Cohan
Target entity description: Nellie Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and the mother of famed entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan.
  • A. Ruth Etting
    Ruth Etting was a popular American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, famed for hits like "Love Me or Leave Me" and known as one of the era's leading torch singers.
  • B. Josephine Cohan
    Josephine Cohan was an American vaudeville performer and actress, best known as the sister of famed entertainer George M. Cohan and a member of the Cohan family theatrical troupe.
  • C. Helen Cohan
    Helen Cohan was an American actress and dancer, best known as the daughter of legendary entertainer George M. Cohan and for her appearances in early 20th-century stage and film productions.
  • D. Mabel Mercer
    Mabel Mercer was a renowned British-born cabaret singer celebrated for her subtle, conversational style and influential interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
  • E. Sophie Tucker
    Sophie Tucker was a popular early 20th-century American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star known as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d889d88b6081908bada047f5b3ba51 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e448ffb9c8819099fabfeebdc06883 completed April 19, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01d27a8b2c819091b1a58a627532b8 completed May 11, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01d4d18c708190925773a8c02d7a48 completed May 11, 2026, 1:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01d62c13bc8190a0988e66a6262086 completed May 11, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:46 a.m.